Ireland vs Spam

According to the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural
Resources, Mr. D. Ahern, Ireland will “transpose into Irish law the
requirements of
European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the
processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the
electronic communications sector” before the end of 2003.

It will be nice to be able to point to the law, eventually — for what
that’s worth. Since most spammers are USian, relaying via other
countries, actually acting on the law will not be quite so simple.
But it will be an improvement.